When I first saw it, I also found it strange, but when I paid more attention, I realized that I might like it. Because the important thing is to make it compatible with the background image. I think there should be automatic switching to this instead of automatic switching to dark mode.
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Why are people so upset about tinted icons?
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I don’t care about this functionality, but it caused regression issue with Night Mode coloring of Widgets icons even on default settings.
In Dark and Light mode widgets are the same, Welding-White
Reported as a bug:
FB13987184
More details:
Post in thread 'Dark Mode app icons are great. Those without Dark Mode version are an eyesore now.'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...sion-are-an-eyesore-now.2428766/post-33223086
In Dark and Light mode widgets are the same, Welding-White
Reported as a bug:
FB13987184
More details:
Post in thread 'Dark Mode app icons are great. Those without Dark Mode version are an eyesore now.'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...sion-are-an-eyesore-now.2428766/post-33223086
Perhaps some don't like the "Androidification" of iOS, which is definitely happening. The future is more customization, more Android-like features. This is evidence in that direction, that Apple is changing and isn't what it used to be (and never will be again). That may be part of the negative reaction.
For me part of the problem is you lose contrast. The color contrast is no longer there, so colors that are a similar brightness but different hue turn a similar shade of your chosen color. Plus whites get toned down significantly by tinting, so you lose brightness and contrast there too
I think they need to leave white as white instead of tinting it, and increase the contrast when doing the conversion. The color part will need to be fixed by devs submitting different icons.
Also the icon background should honestly be what gets colorized, not the icon itself. If I want pink icons I’d rather have a white let’s say Apple Music logo, over a pink background, that would be aesthetically very nice
I think they need to leave white as white instead of tinting it, and increase the contrast when doing the conversion. The color part will need to be fixed by devs submitting different icons.
Also the icon background should honestly be what gets colorized, not the icon itself. If I want pink icons I’d rather have a white let’s say Apple Music logo, over a pink background, that would be aesthetically very nice
The icons seem brighter when using the stronger colour options, previously they could become really muddy and hard to see.
I do think one of the issues here is the UI for selecting the colours. Just presenting you with a colour slider like you're editing something on Photoshop isn't a great experience and it's difficult to find complementary colours. Keep this as an option but they should really be presenting you with say 6 different colours which are automatically picked from your background image and tuned to more attractive shades (ie more pastel and less RGB)
tinted icons has improved slightly. but it's still in beta so a lot could change from now until fall.
dark icons is where I really like and once developers get on board I think it will look really good
dark icons is where I really like and once developers get on board I think it will look really good
Because people WANT to enable it, but because it looks so horrible they cant... That's why they're upset. People have been asking for customization for a long time and want to use it, but this implementation by Apple looks terrible and half baked.... it could potentially improve in future betas of course and it probably will.
for the record I am not one of the people complaining, I tried it... It looked terrible... I turned it off and moved on.... But just explaining why some people are upset despite it being something that's optional.